I sit down with Indonesia’s former Minister of Trade and entrepreneur turned educator, Gita Wirjawan, to share the personal journey and inspirations behind building SukkhaCitta.

This episode was recorded on the same day Patagonia announced its founder is giving the company away to fund climate action initiatives. An omen to continue the push the narrative of how businesses can be a force for good!

What does it really take to build a farm-to-closet supply chain? Join me and Kestrel Jenkins as we talk about all things sustainable fashion on the Conscious Chatter Podcast.

From the real hardwork behind changing how clothes are grown. To the humbling process of re-learning a way of life that is grounded in giving more than we take. To how our grandmas were right.

A guest essay on Fashion Revolution on the relationship between what we wear and the climate crisis.

I wrote about the indigenous agricultural wisdom of Tumpang Sari and how we can create a win-win solution that help rural communities adapt to a warming climate.

Should our goal be net zero - to do less harm - or can we find ways to create positive impact? Some conversations leave a mark, and this is one of them.

I sit down with my fellow nerds with big dreams for Indonesia: Gita Wirjawan, our former trade minister turned educator and the host of the Endgame Postcast, Tanah Sullivan, the Chief of Sustainability of GoTo Group, and Gita Syahrani, the pollinator driving systemic change in rural areas Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari.

We cannot shop our way out of the climate crisis. In a world that churns out 100bn garments every year, I write about the systematic issues of overproduction and overconsumption that underlie our modern economy.

And how choosing fewer, better is perhaps the most revolutionary thing there is.

While new technologies and business models are very much needed, one of the key problems of fast fashion is rarely addressed: the invisibility of the hands that make our clothes, the untold story of their suffering. The disconnect is real, with or without us realizing.

But it doesn't have to be this way. And together with Yo-Yo Ma, we wanted to show that an alternative path is possible. One that requires us to look back, to indigenous cultures and how they have lived in harmony with Nature for generations.

Handmade is not just about beautiful things. In it, are humanity’s stories and our perrennial search for meaning. Read this Op-ed, first published by Darling Magazine as an invitation to inspire a more mindful fashion habit.

We’re excited to feature founder, Denica Flesch, and her organization SukkhaCitta, and how she is holding onto hope in the midst of human disaster.

While any social enterprise has its own inherent challenges, the coronavirus pandemic has heightened economic risk on the informal handworker economy worldwide. Denica has witnessed those implications firsthand in Indonesia, and shares SukkhaCitta’s experience of COVID-19 with us here.